#Israel: American Elite university administrations retreat from campus provocateurs. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
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🗓️ 21 October 2023
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#Israel: American Elite university administrations retreat from campus provocateurs. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution
https://www.hoover.org/research/peace-and-terror-cannot-coexist
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Anna. Hi Anna. Hi Anna. Do you have a dilemma that makes you feel totally alone? |
| 0:05.4 | Well, the good news is it's not just you. I'm earning more money than him now and I don't think he likes it. |
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| 0:24.9 | Find it wherever you're listening to this or on it can't just be me.co.uk. |
| 0:30.0 | Until that's where Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover Institution |
| 0:37.7 | writing and defining ideas about the carelessness of reporting these last days since the terror attack, |
| 0:45.6 | the word terrorism is used by the French President Mr. Macron. |
| 0:49.2 | He refused it boldly right away when he forbid demonstrations in Paris that were challenging |
| 0:56.6 | his understanding of the situation in the Middle East. |
| 0:59.9 | The French President uses the word terrorism. It's fine enough for me. |
| 1:03.8 | So I say the next few days we'll see a lot of challenges to an understanding of |
| 1:10.3 | who the terrorists are, but at the same time we have to look to home. |
| 1:14.7 | And the professor is written about the home institutions here in the United States, |
| 1:20.5 | rather than looking for the BBC for guidance. Professor, I've been uniformly |
| 1:25.5 | disappointed in our most esteemed institutions of education and I'm thinking of the Ivy Leagues |
| 1:32.3 | and Stanford and the other distinguished University of Chicago. We know who they all are. |
| 1:36.9 | They're status symbols, but at the same time the leadership has not shown what metaphorically |
| 1:44.0 | is known as backbone. Was this expected after these years of both sideism about cultural issues? |
| 1:51.8 | On my view, there's been a very radical decline in American universities and a central intellectual |
| 1:58.7 | fiber, which is surely attributed to the sort of DEI movement in which it turns out that you're |
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